The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-11-10

the event. The gallows can easily be mt together
IN an hour, Chiet OF Police Ebersold who ia in
constant telegraphic communication with all of
the principal cites says that the rumor that anar.
chists are coming here from other places ia NOT
warranted by the facts. Instead of the anarchists
coming here, the few in the city are leaving It,
"There need be no uneasiness," he said, ''of any
demonstration by sympathiZers with the anart n.
ists Guards are placed over public buildings, at
the water works, etc, merely TO insure feeling
of safety and to guard against any possible con,
tngency, not because we fear any actual violence
The proprietors of gun stores are making prep
aradons TO store their stock of weapons in vaults,
and to place extra guards over them on the day of
the execution,
PARSONS LAST LITTER.
Instead of the individual letter, which It was in
tended by members of the Amnesty association
that Parsons would write, deploring, like Spies,
Schwab and FieldeD, the loss of life at Haymarket
ana a0Juring the use of force, decidedly different
plea, was issued tonight. The document Is two
columns in length, chiefly remarkable for the alb.
sence OF any reference , the massacre at Haymar-
ket, or to dynamite, Parsons addresses the letter
TO locally prominent socialist:
my dear friend George Schilling occupies him
self eXhaustively with sketch of his own life,
particularly his actions as leader of newly liberia
ted negroes during reconstruction times In Texas
Schilling will read the letter in full to Governor
Ogleshy tomorrow, II the governor will permiti
Parsons closes as follows:
"Thus, over very extensive regions of country,
among cotton, corn and sugar plantations, | be-
came somewhat famous as a champion of political
liberty, Beloved by the blacks, was hated and
scorned by the whites. 1 then believed that the
and that they only needed courage to
ASSERT 1t But l did not then understand
or know that economic dependency, that is indus
trial servitude, made political liberty impossible
did not know it, nor did the blacks They had
been merely emancipated from chattel to wage
servitude. did not then know that economic free
dom must he the basis for political liberty, and that
the wage labor system created classes antagonisms
and class servitude, and now, thelbacks Of old,
the so-called free blacks, in common with their
white brethren, work and die like beasts In the
ceasng treadmill of wage slavery"
LOUIS LINGG.
CHICAGO, November S.-Anarchist Louis Lingp
was visited in jail by Attorney G. f. Lows, this
afternoon, at the request of Captan Black for the
regard TO the bombs found In his cell last Sunday
Lingg plumply denied in German that he had any
knowledge OF the bombs, and then continued
81 have, and still do refuse to sign any petition
to the governor asking for commutatlon of my
sentence. l and few others will surely hang,
Dut VIII not make statement for the beneht of
those who have signed the petition. | hate them
for the course they have taken, and would not
even lift one of my fingers to save them, If
could.
At the conclusion of the interview Gingg turned
away in an unconcerned manner. Capt, Black and
the attorney In company with Nina Van Zant, sub
sequently had short conference with Spies,
% Fielden and Schwab, in the lawyers cage, and OBJ
tanned a formal written declaration that
they had absolutely nothing to do with the bombs
brought to the jail Then for the last time Captain
Black visited Parsons, Fischer and
Engel, in presence of Jailer Foiz,
for the purpose of inducing them
to sigma petition TO Governor Oglesby asking for
mercy. 1t was all without avail Parsons voiced
the determination by the words:
"lf the state can afford to put me tC death, | can
afford to die"
In this the two remained immovable, notwith-
standing the heartrending scenes that occurred a
few moments before, when the wives and children
of Engel, Fischer and Belden despairingly be-
sought them to sign for their sakes.